THE ARMCHAIRS LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE STOOL 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF SWEDISH WHITE-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS AND A STOOL
THE ARMCHAIRS LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE STOOL 19TH CENTURY
Each armchair with curved padded back and padded seat covered in red check material, with husk-carved toprail and lion's head terminals, on naturalistic tapering legs and hoof feet, redecorated; the stool with rectangular dished padded seat covered in red check material, on sabre legs joined by a stretcher centred by a patera
The stool: 16½ in. (42 cm.) high; 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) deep (3)

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Lot Essay

These Grecian-scrolled and satyr-hoofed chairs, evoking poetry's triumph with laurel-wreathed frames and bacchic lion-heads, relate to chairs commissioned in the first decade of the nineteenth century for Rosersberg palace by Prince Carl, later Carl XIV Johan of Sweden (d. 1818) and probably supplied by Ephraim Stahl (d. circa 1820). Related satyr-hoofed chairs at Horningsholms Castle are signed by Stahl (H. Groth, Neoclassicism in the North, London, 1990, fig. 138 and T. Sylven, Stolens Guldalder, Stockholm, 2003, p. 227).

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